Squire Vulcan lock targets North American critical infrastructure security

Is this just another commercial high-security padlock, or a new benchmark challenge for pickers and teardown enthusiasts? Squire Locks USA has brought its Vulcan resettable combination line to North American locksmiths, pitching it as a professional-grade option for the kind of work that lives outside the hobby display case: energy sites, utilities, transportation assets, and other critical infrastructure that takes daily handling and bad weather in stride.

The company is selling the Vulcan range exclusively through professional security hardware distributors, a channel choice that matters to locksmiths who want to specify a lock without getting buried under retail shelf competition or online commodity pricing. Squire says the line fills a gap in a padlock market where too many resettable combination models are built for consumer use rather than the punishment that comes with industrial service. For the lockpicking crowd, that makes the Vulcan interesting on two fronts: as a field lock meant for real-world abuse, and as a platform whose spread could put more examples into the hands of collectors, test benches, and teardown trays across North America.

The mechanical headline is the hardware itself. Squire says the Vulcan range uses hardened boron steel shackles and delivers 80% more attack resistance than other hardened steel shackles. The line is being offered in at least two combination models, with the Vulcan Combi 40 described as offering up to 10,000 combinations and the larger Vulcan Combi 60 listed at 100,000 combinations. Squire also says the range is supported by Crimestoppers, adding a crime-prevention stamp to a product family that is being framed as security hardware first, commodity lock second.

The North American push is part of a broader expansion strategy. In March 2026, Squire joined the Security Hardware Distributors Association as an associate member, and around the same period it ed Channel Championz, founded by security industry veteran Jerry Burhans, to lead the company’s critical infrastructure expansion across the region. Burhans brings more than 30 years of experience, with leadership roles at ISONAS, SimonsVoss, and ASSA ABLOY. Squire is also leaning hard on its history, tracing the business back to William Squire in Willenhall in 1780 and saying the firm remains an eighth-generation family manufacturer with a factory within four miles of the original premises.

That mix of old-world continuity and new-market distribution is the real story behind the Vulcan launch. If Squire can move more of these locks into North American channels, the question for pickers is no longer whether the Vulcan is just another high-security padlock, but whether it becomes one of the more interesting commercial challenges to land on the bench.